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Offenburg ("open borough" - coat of arms showing open gates; Fr. Offenbourg) is a city located in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [1]

94 relations: Aenne Burda, Allied-occupied Germany, Altenburg, Appenweier, Appenweier–Strasbourg railway, Artur Dinter, Atika Bouagaa, Auschwitz concentration camp, Baden-Württemberg, Basel Badischer Bahnhof, Battle of France, Beiersdorf, Black Forest, Black Forest Railway (Baden), Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Borehamwood, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Bundesautobahn 5, Bundesstraße 3, Bundestag, Canadian Forces Europe, Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Cold War, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bundesbahn, Dirk von Lowtzow, Emil Sutor, Felix Roth, Flughafen Lahr, Frankfurt Airport, Free imperial city, Freiburg im Breisgau, French language, German language, Germany, Grand Duchy of Baden, Gurs, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Hans Furler, Hansgrohe, Hermann Vallendor, Hertfordshire, Holy Roman Empire, Hubert Burda, Hubert Burda Media, Imperial immediacy, Independent Air Force, Jürgen Todenhöfer, Johann Hofer, ..., Jonas Alber, Jura (department), Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport, Kehl, Kinzig (Rhine), Kurt Baschwitz, Liguria, Lons-le-Saunier, Lorenz Oken, Madeline Juno, Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway, Margraviate of Baden, Martin Wagner (footballer, born 1968), Michael Kaeshammer, Mikveh, Napoleon, Nine Years' War, Occupation of the Ruhr, Ochey, Offenburg station, Offenburger FV, Olsztyn, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Ortenaukreis, Otto Kumm, Pietra Ligure, Province of Savona, Red Army Faction, Rench Valley Railway, Rhine, Sister city, Strasbourg, Strasbourg Airport, Thuringia, United Kingdom, United States Army Air Forces, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, West Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble, World War I, World War II. Expand index (44 more) »

Aenne Burda

Aenne Burda (28 July 1909 – 3 November 2005), born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, was a German publisher of the Burda Group, a media group based in Offenburg and Munich, Germany.

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Allied-occupied Germany

Upon the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the victorious Allies asserted their joint authority and sovereignty over 'Germany as a whole', defined as all territories of the former German Reich which lay west of the Oder–Neisse line, having declared the extinction of Nazi Germany at the death of Adolf Hitler (see 1945 Berlin Declaration).

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Altenburg

Altenburg is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt.

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Appenweier

Appenweier is a municipality in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany in the district of Ortenau.

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Appenweier–Strasbourg railway

The Appenweier–Strasbourg railway is a major railway line linking the French TGV station at Strasbourg with the German Rhine Valley Railway (Rheintalbahn) and the Karlsruhe–Basel high-speed railway (between Offenburg and Baden-Baden stations).

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Artur Dinter

Artur Dinter (27 June 1876 in Mulhouse – 21 May 1948) was a German writer and Nazi politician.

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Atika Bouagaa

Atika Bouagaa (born May 22, 1982 in Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg) is a volleyball player from Germany.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.

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Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is a state in southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the border with France.

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Basel Badischer Bahnhof

Basel Badischer Bahnhof (literally "Basel Baden Railway station", the name referring to the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways, which built the station) is a railway station situated in the Swiss city of Basel.

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Battle of France

The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.

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Beiersdorf

Beiersdorf AG is a German personal-care company based in Hamburg, manufacturing personal-care products and pressure-sensitive adhesives.

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Black Forest

The Black Forest (Schwarzwald) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany.

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Black Forest Railway (Baden)

The Baden Black Forest Railway (German: Badische Schwarzwaldbahn) is a twin-track, electrified railway line in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, running in a NW-SE direction to link Offenburg on the Rhine Valley Railway (Rheintalbahn) with Singen on the High Rhine Railway (Hochrheinbahn).

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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC).

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Borehamwood

Borehamwood (—formerly spelt Boreham Wood), is a town in southern Hertfordshire.

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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (sometimes abbreviated BFC; meaning Burgundy–Free County) is a region of France created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté.

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Bundesautobahn 5

is a 445 km (277 mi) long Autobahn in Germany.

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Bundesstraße 3

The Bundesstraße 3 (abbr. B3) is one of the longest federal highways in Germany.

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Bundestag

The Bundestag ("Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament.

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Canadian Forces Europe

Canadian Forces Europe was the Canadian Forces military formation in Europe during the Cold War.

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Christian Democratic Union of Germany

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands, CDU) is a Christian democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Germany.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Consolidated B-24 Liberator

The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, California.

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Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as DB, DB AG or DBAG) is a German railway company.

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Deutsche Bundesbahn

The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (German Federal Railway) was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG).

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Dirk von Lowtzow

Dirk von Lowtzow (born March 21, 1971) is a German musician.

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Emil Sutor

Emil Sutor (June 19, 1888 – August 13, 1974) was a German sculptor.

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Felix Roth

Felix Roth (born 13 November 1987 in Offenburg) is a German footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for SC Freiburg II.

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Flughafen Lahr

Flughafen Lahr (formerly marketed as Black Forest Airport Lahr) is a privately owned and operated commercial airport located in Lahr, Germany, which itself is located in the eponymous Black Forest.

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Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport (Flughafen Frankfurt am Main, also known as Rhein-Main-Flughafen) is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres.

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Free imperial city

In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, urbs imperialis libera), was used from the fifteenth century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.

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Freiburg im Breisgau

Freiburg im Breisgau (Alemannic: Friburg im Brisgau; Fribourg-en-Brisgau) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a population of about 220,000.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Grand Duchy of Baden

The Grand Duchy of Baden (Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine.

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Gurs

Gurs is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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Hanns Martin Schleyer

Hanns Martin Schleyer (1 May 1915 – 18 October 1977) was a German business executive and employer and industry representative, who served as President of two powerful commercial organizations, the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände, BDA) and the Federation of German Industries (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, BDI).

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Hans Furler

Hans Furler (5 June 1904 – 29 June 1975) was a German christian-democrat politician.

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Hansgrohe

Hansgrohe SE is a German sanitary fittings manufacturer.

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Hermann Vallendor

Hermann Vallendor was born in Offenburg, the Grand Duchy of Baden on 13 April 1894.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium; Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a multi-ethnic but mostly German complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.

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Hubert Burda

Hubert Burda (born 9 February 1940) is a German publisher.

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Hubert Burda Media

Hubert Burda Media Holding is a German media group with headquarters in Offenburg.

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Imperial immediacy

Imperial immediacy (Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit) was a privileged constitutional and political status rooted in German feudal law under which the Imperial estates of the Holy Roman Empire such as Imperial cities, prince-bishoprics and secular principalities, and individuals such as the Imperial knights, were declared free from the authority of any local lord and placed under the direct ("immediate", in the sense of "without an intermediary") authority of the Emperor, and later of the institutions of the Empire such as the Diet (Reichstag), the Imperial Chamber of Justice and the Aulic Council.

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Independent Air Force

The Independent Air Force (IAF), also known as the Independent Force or the Independent Bombing Force and later known as the Inter-Allied Independent Air Force, was a First World War strategic bombing force which was part of the British Royal Air Force and was used to strike against German railways, aerodromes, and industrial centres without co-ordination with the Army or Navy.

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Jürgen Todenhöfer

Jürgen Todenhöfer (born 12 November 1940) is a German author, journalist, politician, and executive.

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Johann Hofer

Johann Hofer (18 August 1810 in Önsbach, Baden – 4 August 1880 in Offenburg) was a German lawyer.

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Jonas Alber

Jonas Alber (born March 11, 1969) is a German conductor and violinist based in Berlin.

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Jura (department)

Jura is a department in the east of France named after the Jura mountains.

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Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe (formerly Carlsruhe) is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near the French-German border.

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Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof

Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the German city of Karlsruhe.

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Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport

Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (German: Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden) is the international airport of Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and also serves the spa town of Baden-Baden.

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Kehl

Kehl is a town in southwestern Germany in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg.

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Kinzig (Rhine)

The Kinzig is a river in southwestern Germany, a right tributary of the Rhine.

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Kurt Baschwitz

Siegfried Kurt Baschwitz (February 2, 1886, Offenburg – January 6, 1968 Amsterdam), was a journalist, a professor of press, propaganda and public opinion, scholar on newspapers, and crowd psychology.

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Liguria

Liguria (Ligûria, Ligurie) is a coastal region of north-western Italy; its capital is Genoa.

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Lons-le-Saunier

Lons-le-Saunier is a commune and capital of the Jura department in eastern France.

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Lorenz Oken

Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist.

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Madeline Juno

Madeline Obrigewitsch (born 11 August 1995), better known by her stage name Madeline Juno, is a German singer-songwriter.

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Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway

The Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway is a double-track electrified mainline railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Margraviate of Baden

The Margraviate of Baden (Markgrafschaft Baden) was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Martin Wagner (footballer, born 1968)

Martin Wagner (born 24 February 1968) is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder or defender.

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Michael Kaeshammer

Michael Kaeshammer (born 7 January 1977) is a Canadian jazz and boogie-woogie pianist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and record producer.

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Mikveh

Mikveh or mikvah (mikva'ot, mikvoth, mikvot, or (Yiddish) mikves, "a collection") is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Nine Years' War

The Nine Years' War (1688–97) – often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg – was a conflict between Louis XIV of France and a European coalition of Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Spain, England and Savoy.

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Occupation of the Ruhr

The Occupation of the Ruhr (Ruhrbesetzung) was a period of military occupation of the German Ruhr valley by France and Belgium between 1923 and 1925 in response to the Weimar Republic's failure to meet its second reparation payment of the £6.6 billion that was dictated in the Treaty of Versailles by the Triple Entente(1919) in the aftermath of World War I.

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Ochey

Ochey is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

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Offenburg station

Offenburg station is in Baden-Württemberg and has seven tracks on four platforms.

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Offenburger FV

Offenburger FV is a German association football club based in the city of Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg.

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Olsztyn

Olsztyn (Allenstein; Old Polish: Holstin; Old Prussian: Alnāsteini or Alnestabs; Alnaštynas, Alnštynas, Alštynas (historical) and Olštynas (modern)) is a city on the Łyna River in northeastern Poland.

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Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (postnominal abbr. O.F.M.Cap.) is an order of friars within the Catholic Church, among the chief offshoots of the Franciscans.

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Ortenaukreis

Ortenaukreis (Arrondissement de l'Ortenau) is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Otto Kumm

Otto Kumm (1 November 1909 – 23 March 2004) was a German divisional commander in the Waffen-SS during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

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Pietra Ligure

Pietra Ligure is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about southwest of Savona.

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Province of Savona

The province of Savona (provincia di Savona; Ligurian: provinsa de Sann-a) is a province in the Liguria region of Italy.

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Red Army Faction

The Red Army Faction (RAF; German),See the section ''Faction'' versus ''Fraktion'' also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group or Baader-Meinhof Gang, was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970.

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Rench Valley Railway

The Rench Valley Railway (German: Renchtalbahn) is a 29.1 kilometre long branch line from Appenweier to Bad Griesbach (Schwarzwald), that mainly follows the valley of the River Rench in the Black Forest with maximum inclines of 1:99.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg (Alsatian: Strossburi; Straßburg) is the capital and largest city of the Grand Est region of France and is the official seat of the European Parliament.

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Strasbourg Airport

Strasbourg Airport (Aéroport de Strasbourg) is a minor international airport located in Entzheim and 10 km (6.2 miles) west-southwest of Strasbourg, both communes of the Bas-Rhin département in the Alsace région of France.

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Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen) is a federal state in central Germany.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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University of Applied Sciences Offenburg

The University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, with its head office in Offenburg and a branch in Gengenbach, is a German university owned by the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

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Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship or Warmia-Masuria Province or Warmia-Mazury Province (in Województwo warmińsko-mazurskie,.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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Wolfgang Schäuble

Wolfgang Schäuble (born 18 September 1942) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) whose political career has spanned more than four decades.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offenburg

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